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The Bible is the sacred scripture of Judaism and Christianity. The Christian Bible consists of the Old Testament and the New Testament, with the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox versions of the Old Testament being slightly larger because of their acceptance of certain books not accepted as scripture by Protestants. The Jewish Bible includes only the books known to Christians as the Old Testament.

An international conference "Muslim unity" concluded its work in Bishkek. The purpose of the conference was to find ways to overcome the division of the Muslims into Jamaats, the different currents within the same religion.

It has been just one week since the 11th anniversary of the September 11th tragedy. Already at least seven people have been killed and scores more injured or arrested during protests against an anti-Muslim film which has gone viral on the internet.

‘The Innocence of Muslims’ was released, it seems, by a Coptic individual in the USA with links to a number of so-called ‘counter-jihadist’ (anti-Islamic) figures, making use of facilities provided by a right-wing Christian organisation.

The Islamic calendar (or Hijri calendar) is a purely lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days. The months and days of Hijri calendar begin and end according to appearance and different phases of moon. It starts from the month of Muharram and ends on Zul-Hijja.
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